Replacing liner, foam board, and cover DIY style

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Jun 29, 2017
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Mankato/MN
Hi,
Does anyone have any good resources for replacing AGP liner, cover, foam board, and skimmer/outlets? My local Doughboy dealer wants $1600 for labor! I have a 18x32 pool with a deep end (hopper). I am trying to gather as much intel on this as possible to see if this is feasible for a home owner. My pool uses an overlap liner design. The liner over laps the side wall and is held in place with plastic clips before reassembling the raill. I have watched several videos on liner replacements...but just curious if anyone has tackled this themselves and how much of a job is it?

Thanks!

Shawn
 
No idea, but wondering if you could get the items you need at Pool Factory?
 
Do you already have foam on under the liner? No need to replace it if you do.

There is a good amount of labor involved in replacing a liner/ adding or replacing a foam bottom 1k sounds reasonable.
 
In March and April I spent 50+ hours renovating my 15' X 30' AGP. This included:

removing old liner
leveling sand
removing 1/8" wall foam
inspecting metal walls
minor painting/touch-up to walls
installing 1" XPS (extruded polystyrene) over sand
installing foam cove
taping all joints with 2 layers of gorilla tape
filling XPS imperfections with silicone
taping cove to XPS
installing 2 layers of 1/8" wall foam (one new layer)
installing new liner
installing new skimmer and return
reinstalling existing in-wall pool light
filled pool and began to balance
Installed new ladder

My total cost for all new materials was approx. $900. It was easy for me by myself but some experience and skill is required.
 
s_vidden said:
How challenging was the liner? That is the part that scares me the most! Is it doable by yourself?

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Basically foam. I think I would purchase foam board from the local home improvement stores.
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I did everything myself. I've done residential and commercial construction work for 30+ years. Much of that has been custom sheet metal work which is often slow, time consuming work. I prefer to work alone if at all possible so I've had a lot of practice.

Installing the liner by yourself is very possible if you have patience. From my experience, getting the liner positioned correctly is the most difficult part. Spend extra time checking that the slack at the walls is evenly distributed. Triple check before you begin to add any water, then continue to verify that no changes need to be made. It doesn't take much water on the liner to get to the point where moving it is impossible. If you don't rush through this part, you will have no problem as long as your liner is the correct size.

If you do add the foam board over the sand/concrete just be sure to buy extruded polystyrene and not expanded polystyrene. If you don't have any experience with pattern layout it could be challenging. Get creative with cutting the curved edges and use your first successful curve cut as a template if possible. I took an extra step to ensure the butt joints remained even. I didn't use tongue and groove type boards. I put 4" wide strips of .032 aluminum sheet metal under each butt joint to ensure that the two edges stayed even and couldn't sink into the sand on either side. Be sure to use Gorilla tape and not standard type duct tape. I used 2 layers of tape. I got lucky to find the blaze orange Gorilla tape on Amazon for just $5 per roll for 1.88" x 35 yds. I also highly recommend using a foam cove if your situation allows.
 
Where did you guys buy the liner? I see there are several online places to buy. Linerworld.com, poolsupplies.com, intheswim.com and many others to keep going. I am looking to replace 27 round above ground. Looks like going with a 25 gauge is the right way. Any insight would be great. I have found that I will be having someone else install as I just dont have 75 hrs to dedicate if I want to swim yet this summer.
 

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I replaced my liner myself a few years back and while I would consider myself reasonably handy, this was something new. I watched a lot of you tube videos as you are doing and had the help of this forum. I had actually recruited a few buddies to help out, but I ended up taking a few days off work and just did it myself.

Here is my thread that details the process:

Help Paul install his new liner

Justrelaxin - be careful on the gauge measurements for above ground pool liners - it is not always standard. For example, if you read the fine print on some sites it will tell you that 20 gauge is of an above average quality, 25 gauge means it is of superior quality as defined by the sellers on that website and it is not a mathematical definition. I think it was linerworld that had that description.
 
Hey! I ordered a Smartline 25 gauge overlap liner through Amazon, I am happy with it and the reviews are very good ($170 for 24' round; blue with bottom swirl because I want to see if there is dirt on the walls!). It takes less than a day to install, but filling, installing the skimmer, and so on can take some time.
 
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